Pauly Shore is Dead

I think Pauly was on Howard Stern a few weeks back and I heard him talking about this new mockumentary he put together called Pauly Shore is Dead. Otherwise I'm not sure how I decided I wanted to rent this. The story is basically that back in 1997, after the disasterous debut of his Fox sitcom, Pauly Shore decides his career is dead. So, after discussing it with the late Sam Kinison, Pauly decides to kill himself, figuring that being a person who dies before his time is much better than being alive and being a loser. Except, Pauly doesn't actually kill himself, he only fakes death, which ends up backfiring when his ruse is discovered a week later. He ends up in jail and when he comes out he's on top of the world. Sort of. The movie features a ton of cameo appearances from the likes of Ben Stiller, Charlie Sheen, the Hilton Sisters and others. It looks like it was shot on video, so the production values are cheap, but all in all, it wasn't a horrible movie. Pauly is still kind of annoying but the idea wasn't bad. It had some funny moments and some really stupid ones, but rolling along at less than 90 minutes, it wasn't a bad way to spend an evening. And it shows what you can do for a budget of $20.